CM08-4 Colon Island, Bocas del Toro (Pleistocene of Panama)

Where: Panama (9.4° N, 82.3° W: paleocoordinates 9.3° N, 82.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Ground Creek Member (Isla Colon Formation), Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)

• 2.2-1.4 Ma

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; limestone and sandy limestone

• leeward of the La Gruta Member reefs, shallow back reef

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. S. Klaus, D. F. McNeill, A. F. Budd and A. G. Coates. 2012. Neogene reef coral assemblages of the Bocas del Toro region, Panama: the rise of Acropora palmata. Coral Reefs 31(1):191-203 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 120275: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 09.11.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora cervicornis Lamarck 1816 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites porites Pallas 1766 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Agariciidae
"Undaria agaricites" = Agaricia agaricites
"Undaria agaricites" = Agaricia agaricites Linnaeus 1758 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Faviidae
Favia fragum Esper 1795 stony coral
Thysanus navicula Duncan 1864 stony coral